ABC producer: Anybody pretending this is acceptable against a joke of a program is kidding themselves. Minnesota is and always will be a joke.

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Sorry buddy, but you don’t get a better product simply by having more fans showing up to games.
 

So, looked it up and Nebbie has 5 Natties...all between 1970 to 1997.

If being however determined "the best" any given season is the metric of greatness, yep, Minnesota fell off that pedestal 30 years before Nebraska.

But c'mon Mr. Nebraska Dink, we're coming on 30 years since Nebbie was at that point. And certainly at this moment Minnesota's program indeed is more stable and in capable coaching hands than Nebraska has been for a decade.

Time to stop drinking so heavily on Big Red's past and join us programs in the middle of the B1G+ as happy to be in a conference that's relevant with hopes of a better future, always.

On to I-O-W-A.
 

I realize I need a life - but I shot him a DM. Respectful, but honest in my tone.

I can’t understand shitting on an underdog, scrappy program that does more with less.
 

Vandy said:
It's one thing to be a positive proponent of your football program, but the average Husker fan is freaking nuts.... 85% of them are still living in 1997.... They have done NOTHING since joining the B1G.... If you truly want to be irritated, peruse the HuskerMax Football Forum board to see what they think and say about us on a year to year basis, even though we have beat them 6 straight. Delusional. No deductive reasoning....
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Disagree

The majority of husker fans I know understand and are depressed about the state of their football program
 

BilldGopher said:
So, looked it up and Nebbie has 5 Natties...all between 1970 to 1997.

If being however determined "the best" any given season is the metric of greatness, yep, Minnesota fell off that pedestal 30 years before Nebraska.

But c'mon Mr. Nebraska Dink, we're coming on 30 years since Nebbie was at that point. And certainly at this moment Minnesota's program indeed is more stable and in capable coaching hands than Nebraska has been for a decade.

Time to stop drinking so heavily on Big Red's past and join us programs in the middle of the B1G+ as happy to be in a conference that's relevant with hopes of a better future, always.

On to I-O-W-A.
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1997 to 2025 is 27 seasons

1960 + 27 seasons is 1987


I hate to tell the Huskers this but they’re the 1987 gophers
 


BilldGopher said:
So, looked it up and Nebbie has 5 Natties...all between 1970 to 1997.

If being however determined "the best" any given season is the metric of greatness, yep, Minnesota fell off that pedestal 30 years before Nebraska.

But c'mon Mr. Nebraska Dink, we're coming on 30 years since Nebbie was at that point. And certainly at this moment Minnesota's program indeed is more stable and in capable coaching hands than Nebraska has been for a decade.

Time to stop drinking so heavily on Big Red's past and join us programs in the middle of the B1G+ as happy to be in a conference that's relevant with hopes of a better future, always.

On to I-O-W-A.
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To be fair Nebraska was pretty good up until about 13-15 years ago.

Beat Iowa!
 

Panthadad2 said:
I don't know if I'd title it as an ABC producer. The guy is an employee at ABC affiliate TV station in Arizona! A nobody.
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Yet he has generated 3 pages of umbrage so, as usual, overreacting online posters have made him a "somebody."
 


A wise guy. Gopher football has been respectable since Mason's first year, 1997, when he almost beat Paterno's Penn State and had the first valid All-American player since 1972. The Gophers could have been described as "a joke" in the earlier '90s, maybe even all the way back to Warmath's retirement in '71. But not since Mason, Kill, Fleck arrived. We've had lots of bowls, national ranking at times, some big upsets, a load of All-Americans compared to the previous 25 years.
 





gopherbadgerman said:
To be fair Nebraska was pretty good up until about 13-15 years ago.

Beat Iowa!
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Agree. There's a recency bias when looking at the state of the Cornhuskers.

Solich had a .753 winning percentage, but had trouble winning the Big 12 so they let him go after the 2023 season. They hired Bill Callahan and he didn't do as well and they fired him after three seasons. Bo Pelini took over and put up a .713 winning percentge and won the Big 12 North three times and the Big 10 Legends once, but Bo forgot to engage his brain before putting his mouth in gear and got drummed out as a result. That was 11 seasons ago. Then came the disastrous hires of Riley and Frost before they turned to Rhule.

I think the rest of college football caught up with them and maybe Nebraska now requires their players to go to class, not get involved in shooting incidents, and avoid beating up women.
 

50PoundHead said:
Agree. There's a recency bias when looking at the state of the Cornhuskers.

Solich had a .753 winning percentage, but had trouble winning the Big 12 so they let him go after the 2023 season. They hired Bill Callahan and he didn't do as well and they fired him after three seasons. Bo Pelini took over and put up a .713 winning percentge and won the Big 12 North three times and the Big 10 Legends once, but Bo forgot to engage his brain before putting his mouth in gear and got drummed out as a result. That was 11 seasons ago. Then came the disastrous hires of Riley and Frost before they turned to Rhule.

I think the rest of college football caught up with them and maybe Nebraska now requires their players to go to class, not get involved in shooting incidents, and avoid beating up women.
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I wonder how long Pelini might have stayed had he not run his mouth and let his tempers flare as they had a tendency to do. Nebraska fans were getting tired of his seasons coming to about 9 wins on average, but he was winning.

His off the field actions gave the Huskers some leverage in changing directions. Had that not been the case Pelini might have stayed on a few years. Considering what Riley did with a favorable 2016 schedule, Bo may have had a breakthrough season that year.
 



IceBoxGopher said:
I wonder how long Pelini might have stayed had he not run his mouth and let his tempers flare as they had a tendency to do. Nebraska fans were getting tired of his seasons coming to about 9 wins on average, but he was winning.

His off the field actions gave the Huskers some leverage in changing directions. Had that not been the case Pelini might have stayed on a few years. Considering what Riley did with a favorable 2016 schedule, Bo may have had a breakthrough season that year.
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Agree. There's the saying that goes "He's a bastard, but he's our bastard" that probably sums up how a solid percentage of the Cornhusker fan base felt about Pelini until he dumped on the fans during an interview (or maybe it was just a hot mic). There's no question that the guy could coach, but it was the pre-NIL era and he his style may not have transferred when guys started getting paid (as in, "If the money is comparable elsewhere, why play for someone who is going to yell at me all the time.").

I don't know how old this ABC producer is, but he looks too young to have experienced a lot of the Devaney/Osborne era and Nebraska was consistently in the upper echelon of the college game then. The 1971 Nebraska/Oklahoma game is still one of the greatest college football games ever played.
 

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